Ramón Calderón Is Resigning

Marca is reporting that Ramón Calderón will resign from his position as president of Real Madrid tomorrow following the revelation that he (or his aides) rigged an assembly vote by allowing 200 nonmembers to vote on his budget, which passed by fewer than 50 votes.

I wasn’t going to say anything about this, Marca being Marca and all. But now USA Todayis carrying the story, too. And you know a soccer story is solid when the big blue starts trumpeting it.

Marca is now saying that Calderon has changed his mind. But the board of directors will try and force his hand anyway by threatening to resign en masse and force elections if he doesn’t go (which almost happened at Barca before their season began).

So we’ll see if it’s going to take a mass protest by the Bernabeu when they play Osasuna to end this.